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«I wish Christianity were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy-day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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compliments, despised, flatteries, holy day, pleasing, productive, sermon, Wise Men
«The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Conversation
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hearkening, hearkens, succeeding
«There never was a good war nor a bad peace.»
«He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him.»
«Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Example
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An example, forgiven, slander
«Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Pride
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beggar, saucy
«Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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feasts
«Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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hatch, tomtit, Tomtits
«He that lives upon Hope, dies fasting»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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fasting
«He that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night»
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